Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Evaluating Haptic and Auditory Directional Guidance to Assist Blind People in Reading Printed Text Using Finger-Mounted Cameras

  Lee Stearns, Ruofei Du, Uran Oh, Yumeng Wang, Leah Findlater, Rama Chellappa, Jon E. Froehlich (2016) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents HandSight, a finger-mounted camera system that enables blind people to read printed text by tracing their finger across lines while receiving real-time directional guidance to stay on track. The research addresses a significant ga…

  • blindness
  • wearable technology
  • haptic feedback
  • auditory feedback
  • OCR
  • finger-mounted camera
  • printed text reading
  • assistive technology